Tex opens the elevator doors, enters the elevator, and closes the doors behind him. He presses the button, and the elevator makes it's ascent to the top of the clock tower.

At the top though, there's no sign of the Poisoned Pawn, but there is someone else there. Sylvia. She's been tied to a chair, and her head is slumped down to her chest.

Tex goes over to Sylvia and lifts her head. Her mouth has been duct-taped shut, and her nose has twin streams of blood trailing from it, down her face and neck. Sylvia looks up at Tex, relieved to see him.

"Shame to cover such a beautiful mouth, don't you think so, Mr. Murphy?" a voice says from the shadows. The voice emerges, and it's owner steps into the light. John Klaus. "It was necessary, of course. You see, I couldn't have Dulcinea warning off her knight errant from charging the windmill."

"I was wondering when you'd crawl out of that rats' nest," Tex says.

"Au contraire, Señor Quixote. It is you who are the rat," Klaus says, pointing his gun. He walks closer and looks at Sylvia. "And you, my dear, the perfect piece... of cheese."

"Who's the Poisoned Pawn?" Tex asks. "Is it you? Is it Sylvia here?"

"Sylvia? The Poisoned Pawn?" Klaus says. "It was Miss Linsky's father who wrote the anonymous letter to C.A.P.R.I.C.O.R.N. We found copies of it while we were going through his papers after his unfortunate death."

"So why'd you have to trick me into coming here?" Tex says.

Klaus tells Tex that he brought Tex here to offer a trade. If Tex tells Klaus what he knows, Klaus will let Sylvia go free. Klaus asks Tex about the STG passcards and what he knows about the STG project. Tex is uncooperative at first, when Klaus asks about the cards. "To the best of my recollection, they're somewhere on the Spanish high plains with my trusted servant, Sancho."

Klaus stares at Tex and points the gun at Sylvia's head. "I've got 'em with me!" Tex relents. Tex goes on to tell Klaus what he knows about the STG project, and who he believes to be the Overlord. "He seems to be running things. You know, I think that's you," Tex says.

As a token of his "appreciation," Klaus rips the duct tape from Sylvia's mouth, so that she and Tex can have one last kiss.

"Why did you tell him?! He's never gonna let me go!" she yells at Tex.

Klaus proves Sylvia right, and makes it clear that he never intended to let Sylvia go anyway. He says she's a bigger threat to him than Tex, seeing as how she's "been intimate" with several of his enemies and friends. Klaus doesn't want to do the dirty work himself, though.

"Well, down to business,"Klaus says. "Mr. Slade?" he calls out. "Mr. Slade?"

Slade appears in the shadows and steps out next to Klaus.

"I'll leave the necessary un-pleasantries in your capable hands," Klaus says.

"My pleasure, Mr. Klaus," Slade says, grabbing Klaus on the shoulders. Slade's friendly gesture turns into a malicious one, as he wraps one arm around Klaus's neck. The sound of snapping bones is heard, and Klaus slumps to the floor.

Tex grins. "Whew. That was close. I was beginning to wonder how we were going to get out of this," he says.

Slade pulls a gun from under his coat and points it at Tex. "Don't stop wondering on my account," he says. "See, the way I got it figured, once I get all those passcards, someone will pay top dollar to get them back. I was just taking out the middle man."

"If you take a personal check, I'd be happy to put in my bid," Tex says.